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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Invisible Illness Awareness Week

An amazing number of people have chronic illnesses or other health conditions that others aren't aware of. I don't only mean people don't know someone has one of those conditions. Often they may not even know the conditions exist or believe they're real. I've heard many stories of people who can barely get through a typical day being chastised by others for using a disability parking space or sitting in a bus seat for disabled people. And often they're told the conditions that make their lives so difficult are "all in their heads."

Now something is being done to raise awareness that these conditions are true illnesses and people who have them actually are disabled. This is the first National Invisible Illness Awareness Week. To learn more about it please follow these links.

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About Me

Author Janet Ann Collins has been a columnist for the Antique Explorer, a freelance feature writer for a newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area and her work has appeared in many other publications and she is the author of books for kids. As a teacher, she enjoys public speaking. Collins and her husband raised three foster sons with special needs in addition to their birth daughter and are now grandparents.